Jazz Articles about Andy Bey

About Andy Bey

Radio & Podcasts

Take the Smoove with the Rough

by Patrick Burnette
April 16, 2026

Every now and then the boys bring vocal albums into the mix, but vocal group albums--now those are rarities. This time, they take on two, at as opposite ends of the soul spectrum as it's possible to get. There's still room for releases led by instrumentalists, this time by a somewhat “out" bassist and a vibraphonist playing with how “in" he can get.Playlist Discussion of Mario Pavone's album Toulon Days (New World Records) 2:13 Discussion of Warren Wolf's ...

Radio & Podcasts

Andy Bey, Potsa Lotsa XL, Jonathan Reisin & Mary Halvorson

by Maurice Hogue
May 26, 2025

Music from several new albums is on the menu this week, including Silke Eberhard's Potsa Lotsa XL, alto saxophonist Jonathan Reisin, German bass trombonist Maxine Troglauer, This Is It! (Satoko Fujii's trio), Scottish drummer Seb Rochford's Polar Bear, bassist Andrew Schiller's solo Rumble Rubble Ripple, and a peek at Mary Halvorson's newest About Ghosts. There's more from saxophonist Tom Weeks, and a heartfelt tribute to singer Andy Bey who passed away in late April. Playlist Tom Weeks Quartet ...

Interview

Meet Andy Bey

by Chris M. Slawecki
May 12, 2025

From the 1995-2003 archive: This article first appeared on All About Jazz in February 2000. Listening for the first time to Andy Bey is like stepping into a quiet, still lake. Your foot first parts a surface that's smooth and tranquil, but you can't really tell from that surface how deeply your foot must go to reach bottom. The first time you hear Bey's delicate yet muscular voice alone, accompanied only by his own piano, or in larger ...

Album Review

John Sneider: The Scrapper

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by Jack Bowers
March 18, 2020

If you expected a trumpeter whose nickname is “Scrapper" to come out swinging on his first album as leader in twenty years, give yourself a gold star and a hearty pat on the back. That is precisely the modus operandi on The Scrapper, wherein New York-based John Sneider leads a first-rate quintet through its paces on what in many respects seems like a homecoming, as everyone save tenor saxophonist Joel Frahm was present and accounted for on Sneider's earlier recording ...

Radio & Podcasts

We Grow Accustomed to the Dark

by Mary Foster Conklin
November 25, 2019

This early November broadcast includes new releases from vocalists Andrea Superstein, Marsha Bartenetti, Ben Sidran and pianist Julia Hulsmann with birthday shout outs to guitarist Amanda Monaco, trumpeter Clifford Brown, pianist Dawn Clement, plus vocalists Ethel Waters, Andy Bey, Jay Clayton, Carmen Lundy, Kurt Elling, K.D. Lang, Julie Kelly and Sarah Partridge, among others. Playlist Pam Fleming Fearless Dreamer “Keep It Movin" from Buds (Infinite Room RPM) 00:00 Sarah Partridge “At Seventeen" from Bright Lights and Promises (Origin) ...

Live Review

48th Annual Pitt Jazz Seminar

by Mackenzie Horne
November 18, 2018

48th Annual Pitt Jazz Seminar Various Venues Pittsburgh, PA November 1-3, 2018 The Pitt Jazz Seminar took place the first weekend of Novenmber under the musical direction of Terri Lyne Carrington; Thursday, Friday, and early Saturday were packed with guest lectures while the all-star concert was scheduled for 7:30 on Saturday evening. Sean Jones and Reginald Veal were facilitating a lecture on community outreach in the Hill District, the historic cradle of Pittsburgh jazz, at ...

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Album Review

Andy Bey: Ain't Necessarily So

Read "Ain't Necessarily So" reviewed by Chris M. Slawecki

by Chris M. Slawecki
May 18, 2008

The supple, nurturing hands and voice of pianist/vocalist Andy Bey generally dispenses most music in two flavors, either a ballad or a blues. This live recording during Bey's first headline appearance at the world famous jazz hotspot Birdland continues his series of albums with producer Herb Jordan, who like most listeners, remains amazed at Bey's subtle musicianship: “He approaches chord changes and rhythm in a way that many others just do not. He finds harmonic subtleties that escape many singers."